Was England Catholic or Protestant in the 1800's?

Answer 1

Protestant officially...but that doesn't mean that every person living there was a Protestant.

Answer 2

It was 95% Church of England, 4 % Dissenter Protestant and 1% RC. Henry VIIII forbade no change of religion while alive. His son went in a Protestant direction from 1549 with the First Prayer Book. After Mary died in 1558 The Church of England became part of Protestantism with a Catholic ministry. It has never had an official doctrinal stance that could be called RC, Calvinist, Lutheran or whatever. At best it's a kind of Catholic Lite: Catholic substance and Protestant principles.

Answer 3

Officially protestant through the Protestant Ascendancy (1) and reinforced through the Act of Union (2).

Contemporary laws excluded all non-Anglicans from membership in Parliament (3) , an exclusion that meant that over 90% of the Irish population who belonged to other faiths, most notably Roman Catholicism, the religion of the majority, were banned from membership. Catholics were denied the vote until the 1790s, and furthermore were not allowed to become Members of Parliament until Catholic Emancipation in 1829. This Irish Parliament was the central institution in what had become known by the 1780s as the Protestant Ascendancy. It was also responsible for a series of anti-Catholic discriminatory laws known as the Penal Laws. It had been given a large measure of independence by the Constitution of 1782, after centuries of being subordinated to the English (and later, British) Parliament.

Answer 4

It was Church of England (Protestant) although they never considered themselves to be protestant. They call themselves the via midia, the middle road between Roman Catholic and Protestant. By-the-way, while they are Church of England, 90% of the country today rarely if ever goes to church.

Answer 5

England has been Protestant since the 1500's.

Answer 6

Very Protestant.

Catholics in England during the period 1558 to 1829 were prohibited by law to practice their faith either in public or private. It was illegal to be Catholic. Parliament finally emancipated Catholics in England in 1829...not that long ago really.

Answer 7

Anglican since Henry VIII's break with Rome

Answer 8

Anglican...which is a sort of catholic wannabe...the same stupid robes and gown...same stupid titles and rituals...